Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Vijay Chander wrote: > Jesse, >  To add to Juan's points, we are not power users of OVS. All we need is a DMAC > based switching of packets paying attention to VLAN ids. > >  Short lived/long lived flows happen at L4 level which we don't want OVS to > pay attention

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > >> I don't really see anything in the information that you've given that >> indicates OVS is the one dropping packets > > We do not see the same problem with the Linux Bridge, and we want to use the > vswitch. > > Is it possible that o

Re: [ovs-discuss] in-kernel flow table in the datapath

2012-02-03 Thread Justin Pettit
On Feb 3, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > But they get expired within a few secs. What is the timeout period? Kernel flows typically expire five seconds after being idle. (It may be shorter if under load.) > Is it possible to make the in-kernel flow table entries permanent > until

[ovs-discuss] in-kernel flow table in the datapath

2012-02-03 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
I am trying out openvswitch 1.4.0 with the upstream 3.3.0-rc2 kernel. I removed the default table flow table entry and added the following 2 flow table entries matching the br0 mac address as dl_src or dl_dst # ovs-ofctl del-flows br0 # ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 idle_timeout=0,dl_src=00:1b:21:84:4e:

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Vijay Chander
Jesse, To add to Juan's points, we are not power users of OVS. All we need is a DMAC based switching of packets paying attention to VLAN ids. Short lived/long lived flows happen at L4 level which we don't want OVS to pay attention to. Is this possible ? Is it possible to run OVS in bridge mo

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Juan Tellez
Jesse, > I don't really see anything in the information that you've given that > indicates OVS is the one dropping packets We do not see the same problem with the Linux Bridge, and we want to use the vswitch. Is it possible that ovs disrupts long living TCP connections in the presence of many

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some doubts regarding OVS-1.2.2

2012-02-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:26:26PM +0530, Ramana Reddy wrote: > 1. How to add a given user flow in the datapath (the dpif_flow_put function > adds flow in the datapath, but it takes > lot of parameters, and the caller should fill all these parameters). I > need a simpler one. I don't see how i

[ovs-discuss] Some doubts regarding OVS-1.2.2

2012-02-03 Thread Ramana Reddy
1. How to add a given user flow in the datapath (the dpif_flow_put function adds flow in the datapath, but it takes lot of parameters, and the caller should fill all these parameters). I need a simpler one. 2. What is the relation among facet ( An exact-match instantiation of an OpenFlow flow

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > What's the traffic mixture like when you have this problem with vlans (i.e. single flow vs. many connections)?  If you run a single stream, what is the ratio of hits to misses on the relevant datapath? > > Our traffic

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-brcompatd on CentOS/RHEL 6.x

2012-02-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
The easiest solution might be a new version of the brctl wrapper that OVS used to install on XenServer: http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commit;h=8521345b51ef456819412b175538555eb9f3c152 On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:02:36PM +0100, Frido Roose wrote: > I did some mor

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-brcompatd on CentOS/RHEL 6.x

2012-02-03 Thread Frido Roose
I did some more tests, and so far it looks it's only the brctl show that has this problem. # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces vbr314 /sys/class/net/vbr314/bridge: No such file or directory /sys/class/net/vbr314/bridge: No such file or directory /sys/class/net/vbr314/bridge: